ROSE FAMILY 



THE PLANT: nearly erect, four inches to twelve inches 

 long; the stems tufted, branched, slightly woody at the 

 base, with short, soft, white-woolly hairs, often tinged 

 with red at the base. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; palmately divided into five, the 

 divisions lanceolate with five to six lobes; above dark 

 green and without hairs; below covered with short, soft, 

 white hairs; obtuse at the apex; wedge-shaped at the base; 

 all but the uppermost petioled; the margins rolled back- 

 wards. The stipules lanceolate and tapering to a point 

 at the apex. 



THE FLOWERS: small, on stems; the five lobes of the calyx 

 ovate, acutish, a little shorter than the petals; the five petals 

 obovate, with a shallow notch at the end. The stamens 

 very numerous slightly darker yellow than the petals. 



THE FRUIT: follicle. 



A low cinquefoil; at the ends of the branches are very 

 dense clusters of greenish buds, which, simultaneously 

 develop into small, round, yellow flowers; the petals, 

 wide-apart and square. The stem and underneath side of 

 the leaves are conspicuously white-silky; the upper surface 

 of the leaves very dark green. 



ROSACES ROSE FAMILY 



Potentilla canadensis, L. 



Yellow Cinquefoil, 



Five-finger, 

 April- August Wild Strawberry. 



Potentilla: for derivation see argenta. 

 Canadensis: Latin for Canadian. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry, sandy soil of the Commons. 



THE PLANT: trailing and spreading by runners, three 

 inches to two feet long; the stem with slightly spreading 

 hairs. 



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